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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
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I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
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. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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